Killin needs a team of dedicated volunteers to provide a patient transport service to and from hospital and clinic appointments. Volunteers will play an important role in ensuring patients in this rural area can attend appointments on time.

Plans released at a local public meeting show future forestry felling for the area around Lix Toll. The area of trees very close to the A827 to Killin immediately north east of Lix Toll is to ‘come down imminently’.

The scarecrow competition will be run again this year by the Killin & District Agricultural Society. Scarecrows should be on display and registered by Sunday 10th August 2014. Register your scarecrow in News First paper shop. Your scarecrow should be displayed within reasonable walking distance of Killin.

Notes from the meeting of Killin Community Council on 8th July 2014. David Hopper was in attendance to discuss fly tipping in the Station Road Car Park and the opening arrangements of the Callander Recycling Centre. David noted that he had visited the car park and had found it to be very tidy.

On Friday 17th June, the award winning, trad-rock band Skerryvore will play the McLaren Hall – a first visit to the village for the band. Skerryvore were recently described in the Falkirk Herald as “Six of the best musical ambassadors Scotland could ever have wished for… a living, breathing, twelve legged party waiting to happen.